Description: This is the full version of Expanding Horizons newsletter, June 2001, Issue No. 24.

Description: Article in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that talks about the E&R section elections and announces the winners.

Description: Discussion of the merger between the the Actuarial Education and Research Fund and The Actuarial Foundation. The named of the merged organizations will be The Actuarial Foundation. Legally, the AERF will go out of existence, but all of its functions will be continued by the new, merged organization.

Description: Discussion of the October 23 & 24 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries Board of Governors, at which two motions addressing matters of interest to academic actuaries were approved. 1. Undertaking a process of accreditation for academic actuarial science programs. and 2. SOA exam exemption for certain students attending certain institutions.

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Description: Anaheim and San Antonio 2004 Spring Meetings, Expanding Horizons Issue 29, June 2004

Description: Job Posting, Expanding Horizons Issue 29, June 2004

Description: The University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, beginning July 1, 2006. A later starting date may be negotiated.

Description: In my opinion, if there was a high level theme at the Life Spring Meeting, Hollywood, FL then, it was actuarial methods versus financial engineering. This theme permeated about half of the sessions I attended. Issues such as fair valuation for accounting purposes triggered this discussion as did the UK Morris report on actuaries.

Description: At the E&R section breakfast at the Annual Meeting on Monday, October 13, Tom Edwalds handed over the (notional) gavel and the keys to the E&R safety deposit box to me, as the new section chairperson. I am honored to be able to lead the section in the coming year.